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Hello, I just got a Red Hat 9 linux server up and running to be used as an internal only email server. We have about 800 users, and I'm wondering if there is any way to intergrate the users on the linux box with our server 2003 active directory users list.
Basicly: Is there a way that I can make linux use the users in active directory so that they have email accounts.
ActiveDirectory is just Microsoft's implementiopn of LDAP, so OpenLDAP might work for you. I think newer versions of Samba will integrate with AD too, but I'm not sure if you can use that to work with a mail server. But an old system like RH9 won't come with packages for up to date software (you'll need to compile it yoiurself or find thirs party packages). For new server installs, I'd suggest going with a more up to date distro unless you have some specific reason to.
You need to use SAMBA, PAM and Winbind to connect to and authenticate with a 2003 AD. Linux Magazine had an artical on how to do it a couple months ago. You should be able to view it online now. I would think once SAMBA is set up, and part of the AD, that you could set up the email auth thing with PAM.
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